A Teacher’s Lament: Grief and Gun Violence Without End
Our Subversive Sister Promises That God’s Gonna Trouble the Water – Advent Week Four
Rejoice! Joy is Like Water in the Desert: Advent Week Three
From Downtown to the Desert, Voices Call Out for Water Justice: Advent Week Two
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Advent Week One
Class During COVID – A Modest Proposal
I propose a moratorium on school as we know it until we can safely return to our classrooms. A year of Jubilee – a time of restoration and healing for our students, ourselves, and our planet. Let’s mobilize our teachers and move to a model of neighborhood-based schooling. Read more [...]
The Only Art I Know
I am not an artist,
but I practice the art of looking deeply and this I know: It is the water that connects us
in suffering and in struggle and in celebration. Read more [...]
Walls, Borders, and Militarism at the Border – Good Friday Meditations 2019 and 2020
Taught By the Trees – A Meditation on Radical Discipleship
We are divorced from our environment, immersed in a bread and circus culture of celebrity and sports, numbed by technology, eating the pigs' slop and calling it good. We are facing global destruction created in our own careless and dominating image. We are far from home. Read more [...]